• RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world
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    • People: Why doesn’t the government ever pass a law that protects its citizens.

    – Government: Here’s a law to protect our citizens from a foreign government spying on them.

    – Gen Z: Noooooooooooooo!!!

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      But this doesn’t stop anyone from spying on them. Data collection, aggregation, sale, and exploitation is entirely legal so if the Chinese government wants your data they can buy it wholesale for less than maintaining TikTok from Google, Microsoft, Apple, Meta, Discord, and Amazon.

      All you’re doing is taking a bunch of blubbering buffoon’s at their word that this is for your protection.